2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'05) Solving Generalized Open Constraint Optimization Problem Using Two-level Multi-agent Framework Compi?gne University of Technology, France September 19-September 22 ISBN: 0-7695-2416-8
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/IAT.2005.127
refers to the COP where constraints and variable domains can change over time and agents? opinions have to be sought over a distributed network to form a solution. The openness of the problem has caused conventional approaches to COP such as branch-and-bound to fail to find optimal solutions. OCOP is a new problem and the approach to find an optimal solution (minimum total cost) introduced in [1] is based on an unrealistic assumption that agents are willing to report their options in nondecreasing order of cost. In this paper, we study a generalized OCOP where agents are self-interested and not obliged to reveal their private information such as the order of their options with respect to cost. The objective of the generalized OCOP is to find a solution with low total cost and high overall satisfaction level of agents. A Two-Level Structured Multi-Agent Framework has been proposed: in the upper level, a neutral central solver allows agents report their preferred options in tiers and find a feasible initial solution from top tiers of options by constraint propagation and guided tiers expansion; in the lower level, agents form coalitions and negotiate among themselves on the initial solution by an argument of Persuasive Points. Experimental results have shown that this two-level structure yields very promising results that seek a good balance between the total cost of solution and the agents? overall satisfaction level in the long run.
Citation:
Hoong Chuin LAU, Lei ZHANG, Chang LIU, "Solving Generalized Open Constraint Optimization Problem Using Two-level Multi-agent Framework," iat, pp.558-564, 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'05), 2005 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||